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Part 4: Abbas and the prospect of “peace”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas promised U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that the new government that will be formed following the Palestinian reconciliation will recognize Israel, State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Friday. Psaki said that Abbas told Kerry that the future unity government with Hamas will be his government and represent his policies – it will recognize Israel, abide by past agreements and will renounce violence. “It’s a positive thing,” she said.

Upon the agreement of a unity government between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (plo) and Hamas, plo President Mahmoud Abbas was quick to sell its merits to the international community. Western media hurriedly picked up on Abbas’s comments and ran with the idea that the unity government would pacify the historically violent Hamas.

Abbas assured the international community that the unity government would recognize Israel and renounce violence. The news seemed to be a glimmer of hope for peace among the ruins of the recently-failed negotiations.

But as quickly as the media and Abbas charged off to propagate the “good news” of the unity deal, Hamas responded. At a press conference in Gaza City, Hamas deputy leader Mussa Abu Marzuq declared, “We will not recognize the Zionist entity.” Marzuq also denied Abbas’s claim that the new unity government would bring an end to Arab-Israeli violence.

Apparently Hamas didn’t go to the same reconciliation meeting Fatah’s negotiators did, because the two factions reached diametrically opposite conclusions. Abbas said the new government would recognize Israel; Hamas said that it would never recognize Israel. Abbas said that the unity government would bring peace; Hamas said that its military would neither disarm nor give up its fight against Israel.

Shortly after Abbas began selling his naive predictions, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal spoke to crowds of Hamas supporters in Ramallah. “Our path is the resistance and jihad is our choice,” he said. “In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, inside and outside, our choice is resistance and the rifle is our way. There is no history or future without jihad and resistance.”

A children’s show on Al-Aqsa TV, the official Hamas-run television channel broadcasting from Gaza, broadcast a segment calling for the mass killing of Jews.
The host asks what policemen do, and, after establishing that they catch criminals, adds that “they shoot Jews, right?” and stresses to her young guest that “you want to be like him.”“I will shoot the Jews!” the little child says.“All of them?” the host asks.“Yes,” the girl says“Good,” the host answers.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=57Q8K5TmivM

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas thinks that Hamas, with whom he recently signed a reconciliation pact, does not need to recognize Israel. A senior PA official on Sunday told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Abbas insists that Hamas does not need to recognize Israel or renounce terrorism, even after the unity pact with his Fatah movement.

A senior Palestinian official says that Abbas will make it clear to Kerry that the Palestinian unity gov’t would recognize Israel and reject violence. Abbas planned to make it clear to Kerry that the proposed government would recognize Israel and reject violence, a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah said.

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More on Palestinian Authority and Hamas regarding the “peace” process and a “unity government”

Hamas is committed to holy war against Israel, its leader Khaled Mashaal affirmed on Wednesday, one week after it signed a reconciliation pact with Fatah. “Our path is resistance and the rifle, and our choice is jihad,”he said, in his first public comments since the deal with Fatah was announced.

Fathi Hamad, Hamas’s Interior Minister, claimed in a speech honoring the anniversary of Operation Cast Lead that “Palestine” would replace the Jewish State by 2022.

Hamad noted in his speech that the Palestinian Arabs, according to Islamic prophecies, will enter the Al Aqsa Mosque “in jubilation and victory like they entered it the first time”. He said that Israel has failed in previous wars waged against the Palestinians, while the Palestinians are progressing nationally towards the stage where they are capable of conquering Jerusalem.

After the “liberation” of Al-Aqsa Mosque, said Hamad, the “Hittin” system will prevail. That statement refers to he means by which Saladin conquered the Land of Israel against the Crusaders, in particular during the Battle of Hittin/Hattin; namely, by slaughtering or enslaving the non-Muslim forces arrayed against him.

“We’ll destroy the enemy,” Hamad assured his audience, noting that achieving that goal would take “eight years.” Hamad also claimed that the Palestinians are at the stage of readiness for “jihad and martyrdom in the way of Allah”.

Hamas has threatened Israel’s existence constantly, reiterating in November its oft-stated threats of genocide.

“[You] Zionists, you have no place on the land of Palestine … we shall expel you from our land and we will fight against you on it [on the land], we will kill you or expel you from it when you are submissive,” Hamas parliamentarian Khalil Al-Hayya stated. “The jihad and the martyrdom in the way of Allah are our road and our track which are meant to fulfill our triumphs and fulfill and protect our [Muslim] nation.”

Hamas Threatens Israel with Genocide: Members of Hamas have recently implied that once the balance of power changes, the terror group will commit genocide against Israelis;Israel National News, 11/22/2013.

Hamas has threatened Israel’s existence constantly, reiterating in November its oft-stated threats of genocide.

“[You] Zionists, you have no place on the land of Palestine … we shall expel you from our land and we will fight against you on it [on the land], we will kill you or expel you from it when you are submissive,”Hamas parliamentarian Khalil Al-Hayya stated. “The jihad and the martyrdom in the way of Allah are our road and our track which are meant to fulfill our triumphs and fulfill and protect our [Muslim] nation.”